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Hi everyone, I've been meaning to post photos of my mainly 3d printed locomotives for a while so here goes.
Let me make it quite clear that they are not fine scale by any means but a representation of what I want them to be. The 4F is not completely printed as the boiler barrel is a piece of aluminium scaffold pole skimmed to represent boiler banding and the tender sides are 1.5 mm ply. The wheels are printed and fitted with metal tyres.
The 57xx is totally printed with again metal tyres
The articulated loco is loosely based on the K1. It started life as a totally different model that was partly built by a club member which I inherited when he passed on. It started with the running boards and cab so I decided to try and build something from it and ended up with the K1.
They are all controlled by the old Peter Spoerer gear which is now Fosworks.
I also have a few wagons that were printed and some scratch built in other materials.
If it wasn't for 3d printing I would never have gotten into gauge 1 as to buy what I have would have cost me a fortune.
I hope this is of interest to some of you.

Regards
Ron

They all look fantastic, great to see printing being used to open up another one of the specialist scales.

I'd be interested to learn more about how you made your wheels, I've often wondered if I could achieve something similar. Did you turn the tyres yourself? Are they just glued onto the wheels, or is there some method of locating them in place?

Many thanks,
Ricky

Hi Ron, some very fine workmanship there. Please keep us up to speed on future projects.

The articulated K1 is a masterpiece..... I love it!

Hi, thanks for the great comments, makes it all worthwhile and hope it's an inspiration to others to show what they can achieve.
Ron

I like those very much! Please do let us know how future projects progress - I'd love to see pictures of your locos at the head of a train...

All the best,

Andrew

Hi,
this is my little tram engine I printed along with some early printed wagons. I've added some more since then so will post them later.

Ron

These are some wonderful looking engines and rolling stock Ron. You may not consider them 'finescale', but they easily pass the 'six foot test' . It would be great to see some running.

Wonderful! The scaling looks fine enough for me as does the quality of finish. As you say, a cost effective way of getting into G1

Rik

Wow!

Hi again,
these photos are of my Sentinel shunter which is scratch built from mainly ply with printed radiators and buffer stocks and the rest of my wagons. They are all printed except the bolsters which are built of ply with printed bogies, wheels and buffer stocks.
I don't know if I can include video on here as when I tried I got an error message. Can anyone help with this as I am reluctant to post on youtube.

Ron

wsrbloke wrote: ↑Fri Jul 16, 2021 1:42 pm
I don't know if I can include video on here as when I tried I got an error message. Can anyone help with this as I am reluctant to post on youtube.

Ron, Sorry, it's not possible to post video's direct to the Forum, it uses too much bandwith. Everyone else posts to Youtube or another picture host.

Hi,
o.k I thought as much.
Cheers

Ron

Hi, this is my other loco, a 5" gauge Class 27 diesel sitting on our club track ready to go.

Ron

You have one huge printer Ron!

wsrbloke wrote: ↑Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:13 pm Hi, this is my other loco, a 5" gauge Class 27 diesel sitting on our club track ready to go.

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I'm not a wild enthusiast of diesel locos, but ........... What a beauty! Wow! She looks immaculate.

Rik

That Class 27 looks good.

My 5" gauge V200 (nicknamed Taigatrommel) also has several 3d printed parts.

Headlamp housings, brake valves,...



Length over buffers is 1.65m.
Six axle-hung motors and a 24V 300Amp controller give her enough power to pull anything.

Hi,
I must apologize as I should have said at the outset that my 27 was built from a kit a few years ago when I had a bit of spare cash, not printed. It is a Bexhill models one and I am sorry to say the owner Robin Neighbour has passed away after a fight with cancer. He actually delivered the kit personally and stayed and had a cuppa with us. He was a lovely chap. It also looks as though the site has been taken down too.
Ron

Ooooohh! This is all so tempting. But I really can't justify a 5" gauge loco ....... can I?

Rik

ge_rik wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 5:08 pm Ooooohh! This is all so tempting. But I really can't justify a 5" gauge loco ....... can I?

Rik

No! Of course not!!

You need to go directly to 71/4" gauge..